Are Romney and Obama Keeping You Out of This Market?... and Squeeze Someone's Shorts For Big Profits

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Sunday, September 9, 2012

In the current edition of the Investment U Weekly Update, Investment Analyst and Host of The Oxford Club's Market Wake-Up Call, Steve McDonald, runs down the key issues affecting the global economy - and your investments. (Click the image to play.) This week, you'll find... Why you should be looking at emerging market bonds... What you must do to inject growth in your portfolio... The "Slap In The Face" Award: Entitlements Edition... You can check it out in this video. One tiny company just landed 3.5 BILLION customers with this historic discovery It's estimated that in this year alone, 3.5 billion handheld devices will be produced and sold throughout the world. And every one of those electronic devices - including your computer - is likely to be jammed with one essential metal. This metal will be used in airplanes, satellites, televisions, new homes, etc. And one company just uncovered perhaps the biggest supply on Earth. Discover why this could send the company's stock to historic heights here... Here are the top stories that were featured in our Investment U Daily this week... Alexander Green Chief Investment Strategist Are Romney and Obama Keeping You Out of This Market? The other day I bumped into a friend who told me he has sat out this year's stock market rally entirely. "The worst part is I'm just sitting in cash," he said. "That means I'm earning next to nothing. The little I am earning is taxable. And my return, after inflation, is negative." "So why don't you put some of that money to work in the stock market?" I asked. From the look on his face, you would have thought I suggested he play Russian roulette... Click here to read full story Alexander Green Chief Investment Strategist How to Get Rich ... and Not Get Taken Last week, the SEC released a wide-ranging report on financial literacy in the U.S. And the conclusion is clear: We're not there yet. Not even close. Yet the consequences have never been greater. Corporate pension plans have gone the way of the Passenger Pigeon. And without serious reform, Social Security - according to that agency's own website - will soon be done in by time and arithmetic. At the very least, the age of initial eligibility is likely to be raised dramatically in the years ahead... Click here to read full story Steve McDonald Senior Analyst How to Survive a Risky Bond Environment The rush to the cliff in long-maturity bonds of all types is accelerating. That's bad news for us buyers. A Wall Street Journal article described recent corporate bond offerings as almost entirely focused on the long end of the maturity curve - greater than 10 years. That's the exact opposite of where buying should be in this market. There are two major forces at work that are fueling this blind eye to the obvious risk in long-maturity bonds and what will be one of the worst collapses in market history. One is reasonable, the other is just pathetic... Click here to read full story Marc Lichtenfeld Associate Investment Strategist Squeeze Someone's Shorts for Big Profits Most of you buy stocks. You hang on to them for anywhere from a few minutes to a few decades. You hope they'll go up and then you sell for a profit. Buy low, sell high... that's what we've been taught. But there are other investors who do the opposite - they sell high and buy low. Sounds similar, but it's a very different strategy. It's known as shorting stock. A short seller sells the stock first and buys it back later. If the stock is bought back at a lower price, the investor makes money. Here's how it works... Click here to read full story Carl Delfeld Senior Analyst My "Boom Chip" Blueprint Of the Pacific Rim tycoons I've studied, they all share one powerful trait - they grew their fortunes by building and investing in what I call "boom chip" companies... The best way to describe a boom chip stock is to contrast it with what is in many ways its opposite - blue-chip stocks. Blue chips are large, stable, mature companies based in Western markets with slow sales and profit growth plus dependable dividends... Click here to read full story Be sure to check out some of the other investment stories that we've published this week on our website at: www.InvestmentU.com Don't Expect a Black Wednesday in Denmark Darling International (NYSE: DAR): The Easiest Way to Play the Worst Drought in 50 years How the Mobile Industry's "Most-Hated Business" is Set to Grow Five-Fold By 2016 The Art of Predicting Takeover Targets

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